Exploring the Spiritual Tapestry of Asian America
Discover the profound insights and diverse narratives of Asian American religious communities through the sociological lens of Tony Carnes, Fenggang Yang, and their team.
Demography of Asian American Religions
Symbols and Rituals
The Boundaries of Time:Events, Generation, and Age
Political Boundaries
Transcending Borders and Boundaries
Asian American Religions: the Making and Remaking of Borders and Boundaries brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. This classic volume published by New York University Press is now being made available through Open Access, which means free!
It focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States.
It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans.
Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities’ social life.
Shr Swaminarayan Mandir, Whittier, CA
Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple, Hacienda Heights, CA
Thai Buddhist Temple, northern CA
Khemara Buddhikaram, Long Beach, CA
What Readers Are Saying
“the most comprehensive coverage of Asian Americans’ religious practices. essential reader for Asian Americans’ religious practices.”
Pyong Gap Min, Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Queens College, Director of Research Center for Korean Community,
“This anthology represents the cutting-edge research on Asian American religions from a social science standpoint.”
The Journal of Asian Studies
“A valuable addition to the literature on religion and ethnicity, conceptually sophisticated and empirically grounded”
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
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